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| Ease of Set Up | 5.5/10  |
|---|---|
| Ease of Use | 9.5/10 |
| Value for Money | 8.5/10 |
| Overall rating | 5.5/10 |
Full review by
majic79
on 14th Jun 2006
User Rating : 2
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Good Points: Cheap and can be used pretty much out of the box
Bad Points: Unreliability and problems with the firewall
General comments: I was looking for a cheap router that I could set up a home network with and this Safecom SAMR 4110 seemed to fit the bill, plugged into my network and onto the phone line and voila - 5 PC's with internet access. Unfortunately the firewall is known to be "buggy" this is from the Safecom tech support people, they do provide a fix which isn't difficult to apply. Unfortunately I've encountered problems with it loosing the ADSL connection randomly (re-booting the device normally sorts it out) and more recently it's corrupted it's internal firmware, not once, but twice this month. Not too much of a problem, except the fix requires me to plug the device into a DOS based PC with USB devices. Hang on! DOS died not long after Windows 95 and USB compatability was only introduced with Windows98 SE! I've got DOS boot disks but the utility is too large for a floppy, if I put it on a CD..... anyway, it's a pain. Safecom assure me that there's no way for this to happen yet it blatently has. There are better products available for similar amounts of money
majic79's review and ratings | 205 words
Review by
cezman
on 21st Dec 2004
User Rating : 9
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0
The Safecom SAMR 4110 works as a modem and a router, so you the phone line goes straight to it and then to the pcs. The SAMR 4110 has two links. One is an USB cable, another is an ethernet cable. So you can plug the USB into the USB port in your pc, and the other into the network card in your PC (If you don't think you've got one they're also called Network Interface Cards and can be bought cheaply from all pc shops) or even plug it into a games console for online gaming, wich is great. After yo ...
cezman's full review | 240 words
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